Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 2 | In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii . |
| 3 | One of the only four known examples of the form by Newport 's major maker , even restoration to its feet would not have prevented a far higher price in the boom of the late 1980s . |
| 4 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 5 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 6 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 7 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 8 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 9 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 10 | In previous decades a similar swing would have produced a much higher majority . |
| 11 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 12 | You might have had a slightly harder time finding the money in 1965 than in 1964 , though . |
| 13 | With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary . |
| 14 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |
| 15 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 16 | If this reading of Ali is correct , it would seem that simply in terms of his daily allowance the kasabat kadi was better off financially at the beginning of his career than the new muderris ; but in any case , given the fees the kadi could expect to receive , he must have had a considerably greater income . |
| 17 | It follows that recent rises in unemployment may have had a relatively greater impact on property-owning white-collar workers than was the case in the early 1980s ; moreover , the latter will also be more highly geared than average . |
| 18 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 19 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 20 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 21 | She would have worn her furs and her jewellery and she would have struck an even odder note than Lili . |
| 22 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |
| 23 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | A predicted upturn in the market would have put a much higher valuation on the painting . |
| 25 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |